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Two men sentenced to life without parole for kidnapping, murdering north Minneapolis woman
Star Tribune ^ | July 13, 2021 | Chow Xiong

Posted on 07/13/2021 6:03:16 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

Wanda Williams Baugh can't see a passing U-Haul truck without imagining the horror her daughter endured when she was kidnapped in one of the vehicles in 2019, tortured and eventually shot and killed.

Williams Baugh gave a victim-impact statement choked with sobs Monday afternoon before the two men were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for kidnapping and murdering her daughter, Monique Baugh.

"I can only imagine what was being said to her … how many times she begged for her life," Williams Baugh told the court. "My baby was so precious. How dare they!"

Jurors convicted Cedric Berry and Berry Davis in June of kidnapping Baugh, 28, a Realtor, from a fake home showing in Maple Grove on Dec. 31, 2019, holding her hostage in the back of a U-Haul truck and murdering her.

"These defendants treated my daughter as if she was less than human," Williams Baugh said. "My daughter came face-to-face with evil that New Year's Eve."

Williams Baugh called Berry and Davis "soulless," and asked Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill to sentence them to life in prison without the possibility of parole so that they would "spend the rest of their miserable, insignificant lives in prison." Life terms are mandatory for first-degree murder.

Jurors convicted both Berry and Davis of aiding and abetting premeditated first-degree murder, aiding and abetting attempted premeditated first-degree murder, aiding and abetting kidnapping, and aiding and abetting first-degree felony murder while committing kidnapping.

The brutality of the crime shocked the community. Baugh was held captive for about three hours as the defendants apparently pressed her for the whereabouts of her boyfriend, Jon Mitchell-Momoh, who had had a falling out with a business associate.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: crime; culture; localnews; minnesota
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Monique Baugh


1 posted on 07/13/2021 6:03:16 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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The perps:


2 posted on 07/13/2021 6:05:13 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Wonder what type of business it was? Was she involved?

May she rest in peace


3 posted on 07/13/2021 6:09:42 AM PDT by stockpirate (Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God., Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“her boyfriend, Jon Mitchell-Momoh, who had had a falling out with a business associate”

Yeah I’m guessing it wasn’t a real estate deal gone bad


4 posted on 07/13/2021 6:09:54 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Move along, folks. Black-on-black crime; nothing to see here.


6 posted on 07/13/2021 6:10:07 AM PDT by twister881
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Oh, for the days of the death penalty existing and being carried out without years of delay.


7 posted on 07/13/2021 6:10:11 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Well, there’s yer problem


8 posted on 07/13/2021 6:14:17 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

had to read down a bit to find out it was all about drug dealing. The victims baddy daddy was a drug dealer, and these two vermin were trying to find him.


9 posted on 07/13/2021 6:14:21 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

A couple of real astrophysicist looking types right there.


10 posted on 07/13/2021 6:16:17 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: House Atreides

In China, a 30 day delay to say goodbye to relatives and friends is considered lenient before the kneeling in the local sandpit where military cadets get their first taste of killing.

Otherwise it’s a mobile van that handles it on the spot. Opposite of an ambulance.


11 posted on 07/13/2021 6:17:33 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The murderers are unremorseful. They will continue to kill in prison and if they escape. They are perfect candidates for the death penalty.


12 posted on 07/13/2021 6:20:25 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

A lack of responsible fathers and mothers, with an even greater lack of God in their lives, leaves black kids at a disadvantage for life.

How so many kids can have “no fathers” is outright fraud. Everyone has or had a father, and those sperm sources need to buck up—not “Father Government,” which is devoid of morals.


13 posted on 07/13/2021 6:21:49 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: twister881; All

“Move along, folks. Black-on-black crime; nothing to see here.”

BLMOWAWCSAB!

Black Lives Matter Only When A White Cop Shoots A Black!


14 posted on 07/13/2021 6:27:35 AM PDT by ProudVet97 (E)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Lopodicktomize 'em, n' make 'em live like bitches for the rest of their lives ... slapped around and abused, forever here, forever in Hell.

That's what happened to Monique, though she didn't know it would be "for the rest of HER life"

THAT sir, is justice ... I don't know what God's vengeance would be.

15 posted on 07/13/2021 6:32:54 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: ConservativeMind
Everyone has or had a father, and those sperm sources need to buck up

In many African tribes there is no "father"--as Hillary likes to say "it takes a village"--sex with multiple partners is the norm.

This is a cultural issue, and the notion of fathers taking responsibility for their children is something a culture can choose or not...

When you go full third world then all bets are off....
16 posted on 07/13/2021 6:34:50 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: V_TWIN

Pulp Fiction (JULES):

“We’re associates of your business partner Marsellus Wallace, you remember your business partner dont’ya?”


17 posted on 07/13/2021 6:35:10 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Thanks for the photos but really no need. This is yet another, among very recent hundreds of you-don’t-need-to-look-because-you-already-know crimes committed by vicious urban savages.


18 posted on 07/13/2021 6:37:32 AM PDT by glennaro (Dennis Prager: "Until it's safe" means "Never")
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To: TexasFreeper2009

That’s not what the article said. I know it’s hard to follow contemporary news articles because they are mostly assembled by what appears to me, not to be reporters as we knew them, but rather as typists with limited English language proficiency.

Here’s what the article says, “ Mitchell-Momoh’s former associate, Lyndon Wiggins, who apparently believed Mitchell-Momoh had “snitched” on him for dealing drugs, prosecutors have said.”

The “baby daddy”, your words, didn’t deal drugs he reported one of the killers associates to the police for dealing drugs and the thugs were going to try and kill him for being a “snitch.” The “Baby Daddy” did the right thing and it made his kids motherless.

I hope for the children’s sake he continues doing the right thing.


19 posted on 07/13/2021 6:42:08 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Beautiful young girl and I'm sorry for her loss to her family.

I wonder if she were White if the perps would have received the same sentence?

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20 posted on 07/13/2021 6:43:54 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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